Purpose – Multilingual meetings continue to be a problem in business communication due to the necessity to translate between different natural language pairs. The paper has developed a new electronic meeting technology that automatically translates comments written in any of 41 languages (e.g....

Group meetings are a daily component of most businesses but are often considered as unproductive or even a “waste of time” by many participants. Over the past decade, computer‐based systems called group decision support systems (GDSSs) have been developed to improve meetings, and studies...

Forecasting inflation is a major concern for economists and businessmen. Most researchers have relied upon statistical techniques with their stringent data assumptions and low accuracy rates to predict changes in inflation, but only a few have investigated how neural networks can improve...

A Group Support System (GSS) can be an effective tool in teaching groups of students. This paper describes the technology and four studies which explored the appropriateness of the technology in the college class‐room. Results show students are more satisfied and productive when using a GSS...